Star Wars DVDs are never the biggest sellers of the year and never break any records, |
'Seinfeld' still hasn't come out at all on DVD. The final M*A*S*H (the best rated television show of all time) still isn't out. They've only gotten up to season four, |
[Movie making is] absolutely a global business right now, ... Studios want to make movies that play around the world. |
I don't know how this particular deal is structured. But the network isn't the owner of the show, it's the buyer. NBC doesn't profit from 'Friends' reruns in syndication, |
It probably almost for sure will top its U.S. box office. It'll probably be closer to $400 million by the time it's done. Even if retailers are discounting it as a way to bring in customers, Disney isn't discounting the wholesale price. |
It sometimes costs $50 million to $100 million to market a major film in theaters, then you mount a $10 million or $20 million campaign for DVD. They could save tens of millions of dollars per movie. |
It's almost impossible to lose money on a movie anymore. |
It's the same scenario when people replaced their vinyl with CDs -- people want the better version of their favorites. |
The DVD sector isn't going away, shrinking, or about to collapse, |
The movie got great reviews, then it got six nominations. That drove DVD sales through the roof, and it landed the big award (best actor for Foxx). That was really the perfect storm for Ray . |
The prime motivator for studios to launch a next-generation high-def home-video format is to build pricing levels back up. |
The timing is such that Universal is certain 'Ray' is going to get some nominations, |
Their biggest threat is glut of product, when suddenly parents and kids have too many animated film products available to them, |
There is a flood of television series hitting the market, |
There's no way to know based on that release how it stacks up against anything, which is I'm sure why they put it out the way they did and refuse to break out any numbers for DVD versus videogame, or U.S. Sales versus selected international territories, ... That leaves no possible way to create an apples-to-apples comparison. |